Inquisitor latifasciata ( Sowerby, 1870 )

Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. & Li, Xin Zheng, 2010, Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas, Journal of Natural History 44 (11 - 12), pp. 699-740 : 721-722

Inquisitor latifasciata ( Sowerby, 1870)

( Figure 1H )

Pleurotoma latifasciata Sowerby, 1870, p 253 . Type loc.: Hong Kong.

Brachytoma ? Latifasciata: Yen, 1941, p 239.

Inquisitor latifasciata: Taylor and Wells, 1994, p 108 , pl. 1g, 3a (radula); Taylor, 1994, p 201, pl. 1 e, 7 (radula), Textfigs 11–12 (foregut).

Crassispira pseudoprincipalis (non Yokoyama, 1920): Ma, 2004, p 113, pl. 067, fig. E.

Material examined

Bohai Gulf. One specimen, Beidaihe , Hebei province, intertidal zone, 5 May 1950 ; 17 spms, Beidaihe, Hebei province, intertidal zone, 2 May 1950 ; 3 spms, CN 0221 , Qinhuangdao , Hebei province, intertidal zone, 6 June 1950 ; 5 spms, Beidaihe, Hebei province, intertidal zone, 1 May 1950 ; 5 spms, CN 0030 , Beidaihe , Hebei province, intertidal zone, 2 May 1950 ; 2 spms, Beidaihe, Hebei province, intertidal zone, 4 May 1950 ; 4 spms, CN H221 B-8, 39°18′ N, 121°20′ E, silt, 19 m, AT, 18 April 1959 ; 12 spms, CN H226 B-5, 40°00′ N, 121°18′ E, sandy mud, 23.5 m, AT, 18 July 1959 .

Yellow Sea. One specimen, Qingdao, intertidal zone, 23 April 1951; 1 spm, Cangkou, Qingdao, intertidal zone, 18 October 1951; 2 spms, CN 53-056 , Cangkou, Qingdao, intertidal zone, 4 July 1953 ; 1 spm, Cangkou, Qingdao, intertidal zone, 10 December 1959; 2 spms, CN 18–31 , 35°00′ N, 120°30′ E, sta. 3059, 36 m, AT, 20 October 1959 .

ECS. One specimen , CN 57-658 , Pingtan , Fujian province, intertidal zone, 14 March 1957 ; 4 spms, CN 104 B-15, 32°30′ N, 124°00′ E, 43 m, AT, 9 December 1959 ; 2 spms, 30°00′ N, 122°45′ E, silty mud, 42 m, AT, 8 December 1959; 1 spm, CN Ck-7, Estuary of Changjiang , silty mud, 27 m, 8 August 1985 .

SCS. Two specimens, CN K77 B-42, 22°00′ N, 113°30′ E, silt, 7 m, AT, 16 July 1959 ; 1 spm, Xinying, Hainan Isl. , 6 m, 4 May 1958 ; 3 spms, CN Q184 B-39, muddy sand, 16 m, 17 April 1960 ; 5 spms, CN Q195 B-30, 20°45′ N, 109°30′ E, sandy mud, 19 m, AT, 20 April 1960 .

Measurements

See Table 1.

Distribution

Bohai Gulf, Yellow Sea, ECS and SCS; Japan.

Remarks

This distinctive species has a wide range in the China Seas. The present material agrees with photographs and a description of the syntypes (Kilburn, manuscript). It was erroneously recorded from China as Inquisitor pseudoprincipalis (Yokoyama, 1920) by Ma (1983, 2004).

Figures

Figure 1. Species of subfamily Crassispirinae. (A) Aguilaria subochracea (SCS, CN 54–779); (B) lectotype (Taylor and Wells, 1994, as “Holotype”) of Pleurotoma (Drillia) subochracea, BMNH 1988065, China Seas (probably); 38.8 × 12.3 mm; (C, D) Inquisitor incerta (SCS, CN 54–671); (E) syntype of Pleurotoma (Drillia) incerta, BMNH 1854.4.10.59, New Guinea; 25.0 × 7.9 mm; (F, G) Inquisitor plurivaricis (holotype, ECS, CN 553B–35, 114 m, 41.5 × 12.5 mm); (H) Inquisitor latifasciata (ECS, CN 57–658); (I) Inquisitor aesopus (Beibu Gulf, CN Q21B-22); (J) lectotype of Drillia aesopus, ZMAN (des. Kilburn, 1988), Kwandang Bay, west of entrance, north coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, 72 m, fine sand with mud; 36.5 × 9.1 mm.